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Austria-Romania relations refer to the diplomatic relations between Austria and Romania, which were established on September 23, 1878. [1] Austria, in the form of Cisleithania, a constituent and the dominant part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was the first country to recognize Romania's independence from Turkey, at the time the Ottoman Empire.
Austria has an embassy in Sofia and an honorary consulate in Burgas while Bulgaria has an embassy in Vienna and an honorary consulate in Salzburg. [ 2 ] Both countries are members of the European Union , Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Council of Europe .
During the 19th century, the idea of federalization was on the minds of both Romanians and Bulgarians. Romanians wanted to accomplish the independence, liberation and unification of the Romanian nation [14] from the Habsburg (or Austrian or Austro-Hungarian), Russian [22] and Ottoman empires, [23] and some thought of using this idea to achieve these aims.
See Austria–Romania relations. Austria (Austria-Hungary, in that era) was the first country who recognized Romania's independence from Turkey (the Ottoman Empire at that time). The relations were suspended on August 27, 1916 when Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary, entering the First World War.
See Austria–Bulgaria relations. Austria has an embassy in Sofia. [161] Bulgaria has an embassy in Vienna and an honorary consulate in Salzburg. [162] Both countries are full members of the European Union. [157] Belarus: 26 March 1992 [163] See Belarus–Bulgaria relations. Bulgaria recognized Belarus on December 23, 1991. [164]
Due to Romania's unfavorable location between the Russian Empire and Kingdom of Bulgaria as well as King Carol I of Romania's German heritage, Romania had a secret treaty of alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary since 1883. When the war began in 1914, King Carol I summoned an emergency midnight council where he revealed the secret treaty of ...
Bulgaria, [a] officially the Republic of Bulgaria, [b] is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north.
[122] [123] Peace treaties with Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary delineated the new borders in 1919 and 1920, but the Soviet Union did not acknowledge the loss of Bessarabia. [124] Romania achieved its greatest territorial extent, expanding from the pre-war 137,000 to 295,000 km 2 (53,000 to 114,000 sq mi). [125]